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Mariah Carey’s Train Wreck Of A New Year’s Eve Performance Will Never Be Forgotten

What in the world happened to Mariah Carey during her New Year’s Eve performance in Times Square? Who is to blame? And will she ever be the same? We need answers!

During the multi-Grammy Award winner’s set during Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve in New York City, the pop star suffered a series of malfunctions that has officially become the talk of 2017. Talk about ringing in the new year on a low note … literally.

The first mishap occurred while the mother of two started to sing her hit track, “Emotions.” Off the top, it became very clear that she was lip syncing when you hear the 46-year-old tell her backup dancers, “Just walk me down” while the track played over the top.

It continued to go downhill when the track kept playing and Carey wasn’t singing a darn word. Oops. “We can’t hear,” she then said while attempting to keep up with the audio.

Folks, it didn’t end there.

Carey oddly just stood on stage like a deer in headlights while her dancers danced in circles. “We’re missing some of these vocals, but it is what it is,” she said at one point. “Let the audience sing.”

She added, “I’m trying to be a good sport here.”

And as if the “Emotions” meltdown wasn’t enough, Mariah’s downfall of a performance continued into “We Belong Together.” At one point during the classic song, the performer completely stopped making any attempt to sing.

“It just don’t get any better,” she said before walking off stage. Yikes.

Following the uncomfortable performance, Nick Cannon’s ex-wife posted an “oh well” GIF on Instagram with the caption: “Sh*t happens. Have a happy and healthy new year everybody! Here’s to making more headlines in 2017.”

It’s still unclear what exactly went wrong, but the event representative, Nicole Perna, tells the Associated Press that “unfortunately there was nothing she could do to continue with the performance given the circumstances.”

According to reports, there was some kind of altercation earlier in the day with Carey’s team and the audio producer, who apparently has worked the event for several years. “Every monitor and in-ear device worked perfectly,” Robert Goldstein said in a statement. “ I can’t comment beyond that and don’t know what her nontechnical issue may have been.”

2018 Wearable Art Gala: Beyonce Moved To Tears + How Blue Ivy Stole The Show AGAIN

It was a Knowles/Carter family affair over the weekend at the 2018 Wearable Art Gala.

Celebrities flocked to the Waco Center in Los Angeles on Saturday night for Tina Lawson’s “Waco to Wakada” gala, an event to raise money for a non-profit art and performance complex. Some of the attendees included Magic Johnson, V Boseman and Lisa Raye, but it was Beyonce and company that really stole the show.

During the event, the Queen Bey, who stunned in a custom Falguni Shane Peacock gown, delivered an emotional speech while accepting the 2018 Waco Theater Humanitarian Award. “I never thought people should receive awards like this because in my opinion, the giving is the reward and that’s enough,” Bey told the crowd.

She added, “I try to keep my charitable work quiet because I feel like these things should come from the goodness of your heart and nothing orchestrated as a campaign. And if I’m honored, I keep it quiet because I feel like I could be doing more.”

Bey wasn’t the only family member taking home an award. The singer’s mother-in-law, Gloria Carter, accepted the Everyday People Award. “She raised four kids and she did the best job with me,” Jay Z said on behalf of his mother.

“My mother is a beautiful human being. She’s a progressive woman, who was always strong. She’s someone who is so strong that she told me, ‘You can do anything in life.’ I believed it so much that I thought she made it up herself,” the rapper told the crowd. “I didn’t realize it was a cliché, but I worked really hard because of her saying. I’m very happy and proud of you.”

And we’ve said it before and we will say it again … Blue Ivy always manages to become the spotlight and she did just that with her insanely adorable antics.

During the event, Jay had to stop his 6-year-old from bidding on items worth upwards of $19,000, including an acrylic painting of a young Sidney Poitier.

In video that surfaced on social media over the weekend, you see Jay hilariously slap her hand down to stop from the major bidding war. Ironically, Blue was bidding against mogul, Tyler Perry.